Word: austine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front, the Cadets have a big, burly group anchored by captain and potential all-American center Bill Yeoman, of Austin, Texas. End Dan Foldberg, another Texan, and brother of Army's famous Hank Foldberg, is the team's best pass receiver...
ROBERT F. SHURTZ Austin...
...certainly not established the rule of law among the nations. Yet it had greatly strengthened a growing public morality between the nations. As Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate, pointed out before sailing: "The free nations of the world enter this year's meeting of the General Assembly stronger and more firmly united than at any time since the end of the war." True, the unity and purpose of the free (as opposed to the slave) nations had the extra-legal aspect of a vigilance committee; but there had been other times when public morality expressed through vigilantes had been...
...setting, the plot, and the words were familiar enough to Londoners. For it was the same bawdy Beggar's Opera that John Gay had written more than two centuries ago. Unlike some others who had tinkered with Gay's libretto (Frederic Austin, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington), Britten had followed it carefully, keeping to the squalor and backside-slapping of 18th Century London. The music, in its latest disguise, was something else again...
...hands of most current novelists, the commonplace and slight story of Nora's indiscretion, Austin's kindly rejection of her advances, and the effects these events have on Austin's wife, pregnant with her second baby, would be something to read in a hammock and forget by dinnertime. Maxwell has made it something more...